The castle St. Hilarion in Northern Cyprus

In Cyprus we visited a beautiful spot in the Turkish northern part of the island: the magical castle ruins St. Hilarion. This saint, who is declared to be an Ascended Master nowadays, allegedly was buried there and a small Byzantine monastic church erected above his grave. In the 8th century a castle was built in this strategic place, which seems to merge with the rocks at first glance. Even nowadays this place is so romantic that it served Walt Disney as a model for his movie “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”. After all, some people still claim that the castle once belonged to a sorceress who charmed her visitors to sleep in a secret garden and afterwards robbed them. We couldn’t feel that, but we were able to sense the energies of Hilarion in the region of the former church all the better.